Addressing user pain points vs solving user problems better 😓
GoPractice opens a series on how to create products that people need – on the basics of product management.
From this article, you will learn how product work differs through the prism of “problems and pains” from work through the prism of “increasing the effectiveness of the solution.”
Time To Read: 6 Minutes
Published: February 2022
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Ford has shut down VIIZR, a software-as-a-service company that along with Salesforce built an app to help tradespeople like plumbers, locksmiths and electricians to schedule field appointments, send invoices and manage customers, TechCrunch has learned. About 40 people who worked at VIIZR were laid off.
VIIZR, which was announced in December 2021, was a separate company majority owned by Ford with Salesforce as a minority investor. Its aim, at the time, was to build one of the many digital tools that would catapult the automaker’s commercial vehicle and service business Ford Pro to about $45 billion in revenue by 2025.
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